Please Note: due to necessary system upgrades, some library services will be unavailable from the evening of Tue 3/17 through the end of the day on Sun 3/22. The following services will be unavailable or impacted: My Library Account in CLIO will be unavailable Online renewals will be unavailable Recalls/Holds cannot be placed Borrow Direct […]
Concert: Columbia New Music – Friday, Mar. 6th, 8pm
Columbia New Music presents their Spring Concert, on Friday, March 6th, at 8pm, in Earl Hall on the Morningside campus. The concert will feature works by Columbia composers Raul Perez-Jimenez, Dan Malinsky, Alex Klein, Justin Reardon, and others. There will be food, as well. Check it out! […]
Spring Break – Library Hours
Music & Arts Library hours for Spring Break will be as follows: Sat 3/14 – Sun 3/15 Closed Mon 3/16 – Fri 3/20 10am-5pm Sat 3/21 – Sun 3/22 Closed Normal spring semester hours will resume on Monday, 3/23. Spring Break hours for other campus libraries can be found at this link. […]
Tips on audio playback for Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library, one of the Libraries’ online audio databases, seems to have recently changed their web site, in a way that may impact some users. When you select your audio and start playback, a window launches, running a Flash audio player. Unfortunately, this player will not work on standard library workstations! If you look […]
Featured E-Resource: The Jazz Discography
The Jazz Discography (Tom Lord) is now available through the Libraries. It is “… the most up-to-date general discography of all categories of recorded jazz, from 1896 to today”. This resource allows much more flexible searching than was possible using the earlier print and CD-ROM versions. Searches are available for leader, session, musician, tune, and […]
Columbia University Libraries 2009 Survey – still time!
A reminder – the Columbia University Libraries 2009 online survey will be running up through Friday 2/27 at 5pm. There’s still time to participate! Follow the link in the email you received about the survey, or, you can take the survey here. More information about the survey can be found here. There’s been a great […]
Libraries 2009 Online Survey starts Monday 2/16 – Talk to us!
The Libraries’ 2009 Online Survey begins on Monday, 2/16, and will run through Friday, 2/27. Watch for an email in your inbox on Monday, which will go out to all Morningside full-time students, faculty, and staff, and will include a link to the online survey. This is a great opportunity to let the Libraries know […]
Reminder – Renew your semester-loan items by 2/16!
Items checked out under the previous semester loan due date are due on 2/16/09. If you have not already, please make sure to renew your print materials before that date, to avoid possible overdue charges (and eventual circulation blocks, if the items become severely overdue). Items with the new semester loan due date of 6/1/09 […]
Audio databases, and some other related resources
You can browse a listing of electronic audio databases, under “E-Music and Sound Collections” under the “E-Resources” tab on the Libraries’ home page. There are some terrific resources here! In addition, here are a few titles that don’t appear in the list linked to above, but contain media content that may be of interest to […]
New Database: Contemporary World Music
Columbia University Libraries has subscribed to Contemporary World Music (Alexander Street Press). This database provides streaming audio content, covering in this initial release ” …1,030 albums, equalling 13,726 tracks”, including content from labels including: Topic, Playasound, Budamusique, Air Mail Music, Manuiti, Crossing Records, Lyrichord World Music, Navras Records, and INEDIT. Additional new content is planned. […]